Bug#912682: usefulness of this package?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:06:45AM +0100, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> From its debian/control file:
> 
> >This module is already included as part of Perl's core distribution, so
> this
> > package is only beneficial when newer features or bug fixes are required.
> 
> I don't understand how....

The perl package provides the same package via a Provides entry:
libextutils-parsexs-perl (= 3.390000). This is newer than the version
in the separate package (against which this bug is filed) so this 
package will never be selected for installation.

This could change if a newer version is uploaded, but until then,
the separate package should not be released.

Dominic.